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Well hello there!

I am an amateur cartoonist from Oulu, Finland.

Starting out as a hobby in 1990 I did quite a lot of pencil drawings, some digital work on the Amiga 500 and later on a few oil paintings. When I finished my computer education, and started working, I took a very long break from my drawing.

Over the few past years I have slowly began to find back to my old hobby and I hope that being a part of the community here at DA will encourage me to push forward, find inspiration and learn more.

Many of my drawings are scenes from tales that have yet to be written. Maybe some time in the future I will create a complete story, a children's book is already in the works, but until then I hope some people will find my drawings interesting enough to imagine a story of their own.

Thank you for visiting! :wave:

Devious Info

  • Current Residence: Oulu, Finland
  • Interests: Drawing, playing games, jogging
  • Favourite movie: Blade Runner (1982)
  • Favourite artist: François Walthéry
  • Favourite style of art: Cartoon, sci-fi, surreal
  • Favourite game: Thief: The Dark Project
  • Favourite gaming platform: XBOX 360
  • Favourite cartoon character: Dilbert
  • Tools of the Trade: Pencil, pen, PC and Wacom tablet
Well, I am giving it my best shot at least. I am aiming for a simple, colored style of "one frame comics"* about whatever I can come up with. I hope that I can cook up some funny stuff, but time will show how it goes. In any case it is nice as drawing practise.

One concern I have is that I spend too long time, ranging from 3-4 hours, on each piece. How people can create full newspaper strips daily is beyond me, and I don't think I ever would be able to keep such a pace beside my daytime job. The problem is probably that I spend quite a lot of time correcting and changing my sketch before inking it, even though the motives are quite simple.
Anyway, I am not drawing on a schedule and as such I have the luxury of not having to finish anything in time :)

Feel free to give me hints, tips, feedback, links, guides and clues about doing comics. I am very interesting in learning more.


To do list:

1. Get a better pen for doing the comic texts and black ink areas.
2. Find a more suitable, preferably classic shading style to my comic drawings.
3. Hit myself in the head with a wooden stick until I get some better and funnier ideas rolling.

*Is there a name for that?

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*SapphireGamgee Jan 1, 2012  Professional Digital Artist
Happy Birthday! :hug: :party:

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Visit my online portfolio at [link] and [link]
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*SapphireGamgee Jan 1, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
Happy Birthday! :hug: :cake: :party:

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Visit my online portfolio at [link] and [link]
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:iconart-toonz:
Like yer work dude!

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:iconpopfantastic:
Hello B. Grandalen in Finland!

You had favorited my Flutterina illustration a little while ago, and I wanted to let you know that I had posted two new portraits to the She-Ra ReVamped Series in my gallery :

Castaspella and Glimmer!

Hope that you stop by and have a look, and please leave a comment!

Blessings and thanks again..

Susan

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"Character ALWAYS comes first, before the physical representation. We are not what we look like. We are not even what we sound like. We are how we move; in other words our personalities. And that personality is unique to each of us." - Chuck Jones
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=Wictorian-Art Aug 31, 2009  Student Digital Artist
I know this is late but; Thank you so much for the fav:D

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My blog, in norwegian though, but there's a lot of pictures for you there^^ [link]
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~LostArtist99 Jul 1, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
Hey there, I featured your art here:[link]
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~drkrayon Jun 29, 2009  Student Traditional Artist
heyy. thank you so much for the FAV :) :) :)

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:iconmisterichart:
Thanks for the fav!!
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:icongasteropod:
thanks a lot for the :+fav:

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Finally my brand new blog is here!
weblog.papernoise.net
[+] Follow me on Twitter: [link]
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:iconjambang:
cool gallery! :salute:
..and thanks for the :+fav: my friend! :highfive:

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